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    sweetfuhsew2003 Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Jan 21, 2012, 09:50 PM
    Color of wire
    I have three wires coming out of a motor on a two post car lift, yellow, blue, and gray. Which is the hot wires?
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    Jan 21, 2012, 10:02 PM
    If 220 yellow and blue are hot. If 110 blue is hot. Yellow neutral. Gray ground. See if it has a schematic. These are generally labelled with short lines and dots. Lines are wires and dots represent wire nuts
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    Jan 22, 2012, 07:24 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by sweetfuhsew2003 View Post
    I have three wires coming out of a motor on a two post car lift, yellow, blue, and gray. Which is the hot wires?
    This is not nearly enough info to go on.
    What kind of motor?
    Size?
    120? 240? Either?
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    Jan 22, 2012, 07:46 AM
    In addition to Stan's questions.

    Single phase or three phase (which is probably what he meant by what kind)?
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